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These Photos Show a Rare Glimpse of Life in North Korea

Photos Show Rare Glimpse of Life in North Korea

North Korean Leader Kim Kong-un (Image Credit: Korean Central News Agency Photographs)

NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — An exhibit that opened Thursday offered New Yorkers a rare glimpse of life inside North Korea, including children singing in a theater, stark views of Pyongyang at dusk and North Koreans bowing before a monument of the nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung.

“Windows on North Korea: Photographs From the DPRK,” is a joint exhibition by The Associated Press and the state-run Korean Central News Agency, and features a mix of archival and contemporary images.

Photos Show Rare Glimpse of Life in North Korea

Associated Press Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll, left, and Korean Central News Agency Senior Vice President Kim Chang Gwang tour the gallery during an opening reception for the Window on North Korea: Photographs from the DPRK photo exhibit, Thursday, March 15, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

The show was timed to open before the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung on April 15 and comes two months after the AP expanded its operations in Pyongyang to include writers and photojournalists. The AP became the first international news organization to have a full-time presence in the secretive communist country when it opened a video bureau in 2006.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States have never had formal diplomatic relations, and the two nations have experienced tensions over the years, particularly over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions. North Korea has tested two atomic devices in the past six years.

Photos Show Rare Glimpse of Life in North Korea

This Tuesday, April 12, 2011 photo shows central Pyongyang, North Korea at dusk. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Tensions have recently eased somewhat. Late last month, the United States and North Korea announced an agreement that calls for Pyongyang to freeze its nuclear activities in exchange for food aid. Days later, a senior North Korean nuclear envoy traveled to the U.S. to attend a university forum while the U.S. and North Korea held more talks in Beijing to finalize the food aid.

“It is our hope that this exhibition would give exhibition-goers visual understanding of the people, customs, culture and history of the DPRK, thereby helping to deepen mutual understanding and improve the bilateral relations,” Kim Chang Gwang, KCNA’s senior vice president, said in an address at the show’s opening.

Photos Show Rare Glimpse of Life in North Korea

North Korean soldiers applaud to their leader Kim Jong Il after a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Images on display included a 1953 KCNA photograph showing residents helping to rebuild Pyongyang’s central district after the Korean War, AP photos documenting visits by foreign dignitaries, as well as everyday scenes ranging from sunbathers at the beach to shoppers inside a modern department store.

The photographs “give us rare views of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a nation of great interest to the world, though little known,” said Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the AP.

Photos Show Rare Glimpse of Life in North Korea

North Koreans pay their respects before a monument of Kim Il Sung at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday April 14, 2011. People began to celebrate on the eve of 99th anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birthday. April 15 is called "The Day of the Sun" in honor of the former guerrilla fighter who founded North Korea in 1948. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

“In this exhibit, we are offered two perspectives of the DPRK – as viewed by her native daughters and sons from KCNA and by AP journalists visiting to chronicle news and daily life there. We can appreciate the different styles and techniques and points of view,” Carroll said. “These photographs also show us that different people can find common ground,” Carroll said.

Several of the photographs are by AP Chief Asia Photographer David Guttenfelder, who has made many reporting trips to North Korea since 2010.

Photos Show Rare Glimpse of Life in North Korea

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, North Korean children perform at a theater in Rason, North Korea. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

“Daily life is really what I try to focus on when I’m there. … It’s unscripted, it’s candid,” Guttenfelder said. “For people to see their own life in other people’s lives, I think it has a lot of power to break down barriers.”

The show also includes images taken by KCNA journalists who participated in a joint workshop in October led by AP instructors. It runs from March 15 to April 13 at The 8th Floor gallery in New York City.

Photos Show Rare Glimpse of Life in North Korea

Image Credit: Korean Central News Agency Photographs

The AP, an independent news cooperative founded in New York and owned by its U.S. newspaper membership, has operations in more than 100 countries and employs nearly 2,500 journalists across the world in 300 locations.

For more information on the gallery and to see more images of daily life in North Korea, click here.

Comments (126)

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  • Thevoice
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:49am

    Here again is another perfect example to show the Obama (democrat) “New age progressive communists” ….Of what life under their ideology looks like. I would encourage any Obama lovern “New age progressive communist” to explain how their sick twist ideology that government knows best and has all the answers is ever successful . You that follow and faint for a “New age progressive communist” like a Obama are feeble minded believing giving up a free, independent life is a utopia …Well start looking at the photos .Because out side of a gay Bravo twist that is exactly what Obama wants, and you fools fall for. Big government , corrupt union control ..Once again your democrat party was taken over by the communist years ago it has to this point bankrupted the country and now wants to finish the job bankrupting you from the very thought of having individual freedom .

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    • cessna152
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:35am

      Wow… everything is clean, happy and peaceful. Tyrannical Dictatorships are the way to go…shows government CAN achieve perfection here on mother earth.

      (Sarc)

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    • warrior21
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:49am

      I passed through Pyongyang in October of 1950 on my way to the Yalu River, in fact I spent my 18th birthday in a city just north of call Anju. My recollection of Pyongyang is that it was a dead city, and the country itself as backwards as it could be. Doesn’t seemed to have changed much.

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    • Pontiac
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:15am

      Dear leader looking at things.
      http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:04pm

      All the doentown buildings look the same-simmilar color, the same of two types of exterior design. and very momochromatic(a 50cent-word)…ALL give reverance to the great deceiced-leader(or loose head)…all school children use same STATE uniform…and a pix of a child-soldier in the STATE military…etc, etc… .Lookit the difference of SouthKorea in pictures…use your serch-engine…see the whole story!! I saw the pix of all the Soviet-style appartment buildings (all the same exact construction)…saw this on HGTV’s house-hunters-international…There you saw the new-after-Soviet-occupation, and the Soviet-style of buildings(all the same!). When the Soviets had only one(1) domeatic car company in the whole country, all the free-lands had dousins of car-co.’s…all with much better counstruction and quality and useability, and VARIETY! Geee, Wally! Isn’t communism-marxism great! P.S.: Was the pix of downtown…in Color??

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    • nobama4ever
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:20pm

      You took the words out of my mouth. This is exactly my thinking. This is what will become of this country if we reelect the muslim marxist and other dumbocraps in 2012. Wake up people before it is too late. Throw these bums out. Our freedom and liberty depend on this.

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    • shirleyandpearl
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:35pm

      The Voice- you take my voice away!!!! excellent summary of what the ends of another Obama regime would try to do and succeed considering all the non cognitive sheeple who would still vote for him. “because he’s black”, “because, i just ADORE George Cloony!”, “he gunna give me free stuff”, etc. We must unite and vote him out or impeach him some how. When he goes, Holder goes bye-bye,not to mention all the other socialistic creeps in this regime. Remember, more Obama means more agenda driven fed. judges! Also unite to vote for conservative congress!!

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    • BonnieBlueFlag
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 1:12pm

      You wish this is what Barry wanted! Is this authoritarian enslavement? Well sure but it is a lot more wholesome than Barry’s ideal world. Imagine Sodom and Gamorrah with an evil overlord; *that* is Barry’s dream.

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    • TheCoffinMaker
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 2:05pm

      The mood over there just makes one want to have kids.

      Why, as an adult, should I be so selfish not to share and prolong a life of hunger and suffering?

      Oh, that’s right, if I don’t make more kids to slave for the government, I’ll be shot.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:39pm

      BHO’s New Age America will not tolerate dissent or those who have the old school values that could rise up and overthrow his regime…no, they’ll have to be converted or killed, its an either or situation eventually for America because the world cannot ever have another nation state as free and just as the United States of America. When America is finished, evil will reign! Its the way its going to be and nobody at this point can stop it. I feel Becks warnings will only prepare those who will suffer through it not to comply but to go out in glory believing that they are right! It will be so! This day is coming and soon! This America was hard to imagine when I was coming of age but when you read revelations, you know that America is finished and Christians in it persecuted and killed.

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  • Wilma
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:33am

    This gallery has one agenda, to promote Communism. On the gallery’s web site I noticed several mentions of Cuba on the right under the“Press” section. The following quote was from an article listed in that section.

    ” As the Cuban economy became dollarized, and competition for scarce jobs and resources intensified, racial discrimination and racial inequality increased. White Cubans began to use racist arguments to deny blacks access to the most attractive sectors of the economy (such as tourism), those in which it was possible to earn dollars or other hard currencies”

    Bottom line, according to article, capitalism breeds racism.

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:41am

      Just like Yuri Bezmenov said would happen.

      BLAZE YOU NEED TO DO A STORY ON YURI BEZMENOV! ASAP.

      I‘m so confused why Beck hasn’t covered his lessons. Beck‘s and Bezmenov’s warnings are nearly identical.

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:54am

      In 1965, Bezmonov was recalled to Moscow, and began to work for Novosti as an apprentice for their classified department of “Political Publications” (GRPP).
      ******* Soon he discovered that about three-quarters of Novosti’s staffers were actually KGB officers, with the remainder being “co-optees”, or KGB freelance writers and informers like himself.
      ******* However, Bezmonov did no real freelance writing; rather, he edited and planted propaganda materials in foreign media, and also accompanied delegations of Novosti’s guests from foreign countries on tours of the Soviet Union, or to international conferences held in the Soviet Union.

      Sounds like our current media right?
      http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/09/anderson-coopers-cia-secret.php

      The Soviet KGB and Military were always at odds.

      We now have the same thing here. Sure, the Military and CIA have had truf war disputes before, but they haven’t been at odds like the KGB and military of the USSR was; until now. Think about it. The former CIA director, Leon Panetta, is now the Secretary of Defense, not a General, not an Admiral, not a Colonel, no we have a spook heading up our defense. And you wonder why our Marines have to disarm in front of him…

      If you have never sat through and watched the Bezmenov lectures you should. Educate yourself, the truth is out there.

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    • deadend
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 6:07pm

      How could that be!!! Our elustrious leader Obummer says everything is perfect with communism its a workers peridise.

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    • NoNannyState4me
      Posted on March 17, 2012 at 3:00am

      This is an image of what the Republicrat party puppet masters want in America.

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  • rambosharley
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:28am

    @ MARYELIZABETH

    The communist main objective is to decimate the “middle class”(communist term)! HELLO! Read a book! Read the communist manifesto.

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  • acovenantinblood
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:27am

    My boss was in North Korea in 2005. The shot of the kids singing is funny because he said that they had kids sing for them. He said that the kids walked into the room with their heads hung down and eyes blank. When the music started, a grin came across their faces, their eyes lit up and they started dancing and singing. As soon as the song was over they went back into the same desolate look that they had when they walked in. He said it freaked them all out to see it. They have murals on the school walls of American soldiers committing war crimes on North Korean civilians and most of the buildings are run down leftovers form the 30′s. The power would flicker on and off for no apparent reason and the citizens wouldn’t even dare to make a comment about it while it happened. Also, he thinks they fed him dog at a restaurant. He said he was happy to get back to China and when he flew into LAX he got off the plane and kissed the ground.

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    • ginger100
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 11:29am

      Dog meat is for the soldiers, they fed him gulag prisoners.

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    • mauijonny
      Posted on March 17, 2012 at 3:15am

      Good book: “The Orphan Master’s Son” – non / fiction about the DPRK.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:04am

    AT least they don’t have to put up with TREE HUGGERS. They HAVE NO TREES! HAHA The BRIGHT future of Communists! *sigh*

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:34am

      What a dismal place. I wonder if anyone is allowed to be happy, especially the children.

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:04am

    I couldn’t help but notice, the north koreans use torches for light instead of light bulbs.

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    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:17am

      Sorry for the foolish comment about the torch, North Korea is doing the renewable energy thing.

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    • acovenantinblood
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:28am

      Then they must be using toilet paper to keep them lit haha

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    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:30am

      Sorry again about the foolish torch comment, the North Koreans are ovesly practicing for the 2012 olympic torch relay.

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    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:48am

      Sorry again about the foolish torch comment, the North Koreans are obviously practicing for the 2012 olympic torch relay.

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    • killertofu
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:15am

      Wow, I didn’t know one person could be so ignorant….they’re clearly demo-ing the new Philips $50 LED bulb. Philips has succesfully harnessed the power of fire. Such innovation was well deserving of the $10 million we gave them

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:57am

    Gloom and Darkness.

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  • Popp40
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:48am

    This is not meant to be racists but a real question…..How come you don’t see not black North Koreans in these pics?

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  • skiz
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:48am

    This is where we are headed people. Once we get rid of obama it cant stop there. We have to eradicate all polititians that do not abide by the constitution. Including D and R. But if you want to live like animals go ahead and vote for obama or stay home and dont vote republican because your guy didnt get the nomination. We have a long road ahead of us. I pledge to this country my life, my fortune and my sacred honor! If you cant do the same…get the hell out!

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    • ColoradoBoots
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:54am

      Because of malnutrition in the entire country, North Koreans are about six inches shorter than South Koreans.

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    • RoyBaty
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:33am

      Those little girls are so skinny their heads look too big. All the communist leaders are so fat, their heads look too small.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:47am

    I thought that looked like our liberal democrat utopia…….DETROIT !!!

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    • rambosharley
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:59am

      Exactly, the photo of the city looked scary, empty and cold. It looked abandoned!

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  • democritusoilder267
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:45am

    North Korea is a very interesting country. Many will be foolish enough to label the DPRK a Communist country. When in fact North Korea is the complete opposite.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea#Government_and_politics
    “North Korea is a self-described Juche (self-reliant) state, described by some observers as a de facto absolute monarchy or “hereditary dictatorship” with a pronounced cult of personality organized around Kim Il-sung (the founder of North Korea and the country’s only president) and his late son, Kim Jong-il…”

    “The structure of the government is described in the Constitution of North Korea, the latest version of which is from 2009 and officially rejects North Korea’s founding ideology of communism…”

    “Professor B. R. Myers argues that the WPK is not a far-left or Communist party, but rather a Far-right party. Myers holds that the party has a platform of “race-based, paranoid nationalism that has nothing to do with Marxism-Leninism,” making it more comparable to 1930′s Japan than other Eastern-Bloc communist parties…”
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574445980801810944.html

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    • therealconservative
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:58am

      To bad you can’t read the intel reports from N. Korean defecters, they you know that what you posted is BS.

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    • democritusoilder267
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:59am

      “Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.” Albus Dumbledore
      What history will say about North Korea in how propaganda and mass control of people can achieve a strong country. North Korea is not strong financially; There is only a small amount of fertile land which is endanger by flooding, lack of food has stunted the growth of the civilians, etc. With or without nuclear weapons North Korea will be a difficult country to go to war against. One of the largest armies in the world and surprising “sarcasm” the North Koreans are well trained in many fields. Even though I see North Korea as a sad country in this world; Millions of North Koreans see their country as paradise on Earth.

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    • democritusoilder267
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:05am

      @therealconservative: I have read reports and saw footage of North Korean defectors. Every individual has their own opinion on life in North Korea. However that doesn’t make North Korea a Communist country like saying the United States is a Communist country.

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    • RoyBaty
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:37am

      267, you are such a dupe. When one person or “committee” control the lives of an entire population in the name of “the people”, it is a COMMUNIST” country. Personality cults are also indicative of Communism.

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    • democritusoilder267
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:43am

      Roy you do not understand how Communism is defined: “Communism is a movement to create a classless, moneyless, stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order…”
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

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    • deeberj
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:52am

      267 – that’s a nice definition of Communism. That never has worked in the real world. That always ends in a dictatorship where the elite prosper and everyone else suffers. So N. Korea is a good example of communism in practice, not in idealogy.

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    • 4theRepublic
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 3:25pm

      Did you really quote a fictional character? lol

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    • mauijonny
      Posted on March 17, 2012 at 3:25am

      Seriously, dude? I just puked a little in my mouth.

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  • marthasusan40
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:43am

    Stand up and fight, fight with the tools you have been given by our creator. Maybe you don’t realize what gifts you have to fight for freedom. It may just be a conversation to a stranger that will wake them up, something you post on your face book page or just a simple sentence in a chat room…….write a letter to the editorial page of your local newspaper voicing your pledge for a more conservative government. I AM JUST A WOMAN, I AM JUST A MOM, I AM JUST A CHRISTIAN, I AM JUST AN AMERICAN.

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  • USPATRIOT101
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:42am

    I wanted to see the shot of Bill Clinton and Carter handing over millions in cash so N Korea “wouldn’t” develope a nuke.

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    • Delta D-5-3
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:54am

      How do you think they financed there nuke program?? Yep, you got it…….

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  • TiredofSittingontheCouch
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:39am

    Bowing and worshiping before a statue of a man…now where did I hear that before? Ah yes..book of Daniel chapter 3.

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  • tajloc
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:34am

    SO Sad.
    But Rom 8:28

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  • Toxic Pirate
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:32am

    They Complied !

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:28am

    Well here we have a glimpse of the future Obama wants for us all.

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    • Delta D-5-3
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:44am

      NOT just us Snow, but the whole world. They want only TWO classes. The Elite class, and the poor working class who depend on the Elite class for everything. This is their goal………

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:45am

      was thinking the same…….

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:54am

      Then why do Glenn Beck and the Republicans mock President Obama every time he talks about a strong middle class?

      And why do the Republicans in Congress fight every program proposed that would help to strengthen the middle class?

      Republicans are the party that wants only there to be only the very rich and the very poor.

      It was Saint Reagan that wanted to give all the money to the wealthy and then have them trickle it upon the rest of us.

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    • Delta D-5-3
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:05am

      @MaryBeth, QUOTE “Then why do Glenn Beck and the Republicans mock President Obama every time he talks about a strong middle class”?

      Wow, aren’t you a brite one! You must be a troll as only a troll would say something so stupid. Yea, he’s all for the middle class. I guess that‘s why everything’s going so great right now. Tell me, WHO’s paying you to blog here?? One of Soro’s marxist organizations?? Thought so. Now hop in your Prius and head on over to the Code Pink meeting, you’ll be late………

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:05am

      Mary Ditz: Saint Reagan fixed economy unlike that slut Obama that made his cronies rich with scam green projects. .

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  • luv my job
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:26am

    life is great ! Try to enjoy your freedoms while they still last . Government will suck the life out of your body…..Don’t take it anymore. I Am A MAN……………………………..D.T.O.M.

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  • mikee1
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:25am

    The DUMMYCRAP PARTY is TRYING TO TURN THE UNITED STATES into N. KOREA. Only YOU can stop them.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:22am

    These are glamour pictures compared to how it really is. This is pure propoganda. They wont show starving people and mass graves….

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  • dissent
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:22am

    That picture of those children bothers me for some reason. They look starved I think. Probably singing praises to their dear leader, just like our schools are teaching our children to sing praises to our brutal dictator. Common ground indeed.

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:09am

      They look like brainwashed little “Stepford” children and you can’t tell if they are boys or girls? Gender NEUTRALITY? SICK.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:20am

    .
    They look Happy enough, whats the big deal?………………

    Whats with the 3 kids making the “O” face? Thats is pretty scary………….

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:27am

      You are scared of little children have fun singing?

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    • Toxic Pirate
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:35am

      Ah those kids look a little scary to me . Eye shadow and lipstick on little boys ….ah yeah.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:48am

      MARYBETHELIZABETH take another look

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    • cemerius
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:58am

      Those poor little girls starving so badly they came to pleasure the party leaders for the promises of rice cakes!!! This North Korea is a blight and should be squashed like MacArthur desired!!!

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 2:28pm

      What I see is three little children.

      I also see a lot of posters hating on them.

      Is that what a Key does, pick on the weakest among us?

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  • Slowman101
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:14am

    North Korea is truly a sad country.

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  • HKS
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:07am

    Ever notice communist all look alike, that could be a pic of Russia in the 60s. Probably be a pic of us soon, Obama is working on it.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:09am

      For communism, socialism, Marxism to work, individualism must be eradicated

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  • cemerius
    Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:03am

    I like the picture from Dick Cheney showing Pyongyang lit up at night and the rest of the country dark!! As for the three “little monkies” singing praises to their dear leader before he gets is pedophilic rocks off? Sickening pure sickening!!!! This article makes me want to VOMIT!!

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    • marybethelizabeth
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:16am

      How much are you getting paid to come here and fill the web page with hateful comments to discredit theblaze and Mr. Beck?

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    • cemerius
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:50am

      Mary Beth, I have no idea what you are talking about! But, if you read this article as a true reflection of the joyous living that the North Koreans enjoy and NOT as I see it as a propaganda of the North Korean Government then YOU are seriously deranged! IAs you may NOT know that Kim Il Jung was a reported prollific pedophile and my disparaging remark was said due to the “fruit doesn’t fall from the tree”… If, your senses are trmatized by me NOT quoting a bible verse to prove my Christain credentials or seeing things differently from you than so be it have your opinion! One little tidbit about me you may enjoy I have worked in the Intelligence community for a couple decades and knkow things that will make you crap your pants and I KNOW that there is EVIL in this world……You want to vent on someone go for that creature encimon!!!! Leve me the hell alone!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 8:57am

      MARYBETHELIZABETH They have makeup on….why? Because they are undernourished.
      http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/undernourishment

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:16am

      @cemerius I dought marybeth is one of us so just ignore it and it will go away……………hopefully

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    • cemerius
      Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:36am

      Yeah, after seeing her other posts I agree Whatthecrazy…..

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